Screening Art : : Modernist Aesthetics and the Socialist Imaginary in East German Cinema / / Seán Allan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Allan, Seán,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Film Europa ; 20
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (302 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Figures --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction. Texts and Contexts --; Chapter 1. German Classical Humanism and the Sovietisation of Culture --; Chapter 2. Cosmopolitanism, Formalism and Fantasies of National Culture --; Chapter 3. Experiments in Modernism I: From Bitterfeld to Barlach --; Chapter 4. Experiments in Modernism II: Responses to the Eleventh Plenum --; Chapter 5. New Ways of Seeing: Jürgen Böttcher and the Transformation of Tradition --; Chapter 6. The Dialectic of Enlightenment and the Romantic Turn --; Epilogue. Art, Exile and the Socialist Imaginary --; Filmography --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781785339684; 9783110997729
• DOI: 10.1515/9781785339684?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Seán Allan.

With internationalist aspirations and wide-ranging historical perspectives, East German films about artists and their work became hotly contested spaces in which filmmakers could look beyond the GDR and debate the impact of contemporary cultural policy on the reception of their pre-war cultural heritage. Spanning newsreels, documentaries, and feature films, Screening Art is the first full-length investigation into a genre that has been largely overlooked in studies of DEFA, the state-owned Eastern German film studio. As it shows, “artist-films” played an essential role in the development of new paradigms of socialist art in postwar Europe.